Livatte meaning | Last name Livatte origin

Form of Levit. 1. French le Vite, "the quick, speedy, or swift." 2. From one of the places in Normandy called Livet. The Itin. de la Normandie mentions no less than eight of these.

The Livatte is a variant form of Levit. One who came from Livet meaning "wolf cub," in Normandy; descendant of little Levi meaning "united".

The surname is form of Lovett. Descendnt of little Love meaning "wolf or love".

Livatte is the variant form of Lovat. A hamlet in Inverness-shire.

The surname is variant of Lovet. Ricardus Lovet is said to have come hither at the Conquest, accompanied by his two sons, William and Robert. The elder held in capite, by the Conqueror's grant, lands in counties Bedford, Berks, Leicester, and Northampton. From the XIV century the family have been principally connected with the county of Buckingham, where as knights and gentlemen of good estate they have possessed Liscombe from generation to generation. The late Sir Jonathan Lovett was created a baronet by king George III. on the following occasion: "In the summer of 1781, the Earl of Chesterfield, having been sometime absent from Court, was asked by King, where he had been so long? On a visit to Mr. Lovett of Buckinghamshire,' said the Earl. 'Ah !' said the King, "is that Lorett of Liscombe? They are of the genuine old Norman breed; how happens it that they are not baronets? Would be accept the title? Go, tell him that if he'll do so, it's much at his service; they have ever been staunch to the crown at a pinch!!"

There is a tradition that an early ancestor of the family was 'master of the wolf-hounds' to one of the Norman kings. This probably arose from the peculiar arms of the family: Quarterly, three wolves' heads, and three wolves passant, and the crest, a wolf's head. These bearings are of course of the allusive kind, and relate to the name, which is a softened derivative of the French loup, loure, a wolf. See much curious information respecting the family in Burke's Extinct Baronets.

In Domesday Book a William Loveth occurs as a tenant in chief in Berks and Leicester, and a William Lovet in Beilfordshire. They were doubtless one and the same person.

The surname Livatte is the variation of Lovitt. See Lovett - Ricardus Lovet is said to have come hither at the Conquest, accompanied by his two sons, William and Robert. The elder held in capite, by the Conqueror's grant, lands in counties Bedford, Berks, Leicester, and Northampton. From the XIV century the family have been principally connected with the county of Buckingham, where as knights and gentlemen of good estate they have possessed Liscombe from generation to generation. The late Sir Jonathan Lovett was created a baronet by king George III. on the following occasion: "In the summer of 1781, the Earl of Chesterfield, having been sometime absent from Court, was asked by King, where he had been so long? On a visit to Mr. Lovett of Buckinghamshire,' said the Earl. 'Ah !' said the King, "is that Lorett of Liscombe? They are of the genuine old Norman breed; how happens it that they are not baronets? Would be accept the title? Go, tell him that if he'll do so, it's much at his service; they have ever been staunch to the crown at a pinch!!"

There is a tradition that an early ancestor of the family was 'master of the wolf-hounds' to one of the Norman kings. This probably arose from the peculiar arms of the family: Quarterly, three wolves' heads, and three wolves passant, and the crest, a wolf's head. These bearings are of course of the allusive kind, and relate to the name, which is a softened derivative of the French loup, loure, a wolf. See much curious information respecting the family in Burke's Extinct Baronets.

In Domesday Book a William Loveth occurs as a tenant in chief in Berks and Leicester, and a William Lovet in Beilfordshire. They were doubtless one and the same person.

Surname Livatte is the form of the Lyvet. Eight places in Normandy are called Livet.